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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1938
Page
7
Youngsters’ wool coats feature soft tailoring in navy and pastels, with princess lines and double breasted models. Leather and velveteen trim details highlight pockets and collars. plaid taffeta accents brighten navy wool flannels. Four piece suits with cape, jacket, pleated skirt and hat offer practical, stylish options.
A breakfast clinic fashion parade in Chicago featured forty or more young models from a baby to teen. A toddler wore a practical cotton coverall in pottery shades with cactus applique. The design aimed for easy wear and playful style in several colors.
Velvet inspired by Marie Antoinette and Madame Pompadour drives this spring trend with velvet collars bows and ribbons. The French tercentenary and Louis XVI fetes may influence fall fashion and silhouettes. Millinery returns with velvet ribbons flowers crowns and bonnets across hats and turbans.
A French collection highlights color trends with geranium reds and coral tones dominating, blending into pinks across fabrics. Pink features in tartans alongside greens or yellows, with purples and soft blues, ochre to brick reds, and turquoise greens noted as new.
The piece notes color enlivening hats as popularity grows. A pill-box in deep ruby velvet features a slender trim adorned with tiny humming birds in green and blue, highlighting bold decorative flair.
The piece predicts a season of comebacks in 1938 as underperformers rebound. It notes Max Baer defeating Tommy Farr and aiming to regain the heavyweight title from Jim Braddock, while the Cubs vow to win the National League pennant with the same fading club.
The piece cites Pitchers Dizzy Dean and Schoolboy Rowe vowing to lift their teams to the pennant, Max Schmeling aiming to regain the heavyweight title, and Tony Lazzeri praising the Cubs as a stronger club. It notes Dean’s serious return, Baer and other stars abandoning distractions as crucial to comebacks.
Baer believes his best shot at regaining the heavyweight crown lies in facing Max Schmeling. If Schmeling KO’s Joe Louis again, Baer could finish him for a count of ten, as fans back Schmeling on past form. Louis has faced light tune ups but must show more against Schmeling to stay boss of the division.
Baseball clown Al Schacht, a former Washington teammate of Walter Johnson, argues Johnson threw faster than any era’s greats. He has scouted many spring pitchers and insists Johnson’s best fastball remains unmatched, even when others claim speed.
The consensus says Sammy Baugh will stick to football after his move to Columbus with the Cardinals. Training camp showed he may not be a big league hitter, but he should earn at least 15000 dollars annually from the Redskins for forward passes in fall play. Joe Louis has earned nearly 1,000,000 since 1934 in boxing. New York’s Yankees Giants and Dodgers plan to wear World’s Fair emblems on sleeves. Goose Goslin signs with Washington, third stint with the Senators.
The Barbara Bell pattern book presents two piece tailored dresses and a detailed afternoon dress with easy sew charts. Includes sizes etc, 1477 and 1499 patterns with yardage, options for crepe, georgette, voile, and dotted Swiss. Send 15 cents for the pattern book from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches in Chicago approved changes to college and high school play. College rules allow five timeouts and optional four ten minute quarters. high school overtime becomes sudden death with a second and fourth quarter timeout rule. out of bounds margin increases to four feet. substitutions barred after a goal until play resumes. and three second area rules adjusted for players without the ball.
Practical hints for home care including making soap jelly with kerosene for a white sink, removing vegetable stains from hands with raw potato, reviving worn nap on garments with vinegar or ammonia solution, washing fine fabrics gently, using fountain pen water in a pinch, and coaxing canaries to bathe with seeds on water.
A guide to making hooked rugs using burlap frames and wool scraps details a classic pattern. Step by step instructions cover edging, borders, color marking, and rug assembly. For home sewing projects a 48 page book by Mrs Spears on Sewing for the Home Decorator is offered for 25 cents plus name and address.
Collier's Weekly notes the wide range of explosive speeds from gasoline air mixtures ignited by a spark to TNT and nitroglycerin producing a detonation. Gasoline air mixtures move about 30 feet per second while TNT and nitroglycerin reach roughly 25 000 feet per second.
A social worker visits Terence Shea night watch man to ask how he spends his $15 weekly wage. He explains after rent provisions milkman and family needs he saves the rest in sugar barrels or flour barrels when sugar barrels unavailable.
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